pods::...xChunk(3pm)

🎀 pods::...xChunk(3pm) 🎀

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for pods::...xChunk — section 3pm of the perl docs, iykyk. it's giving perl library realness and honestly? we're obsessed. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL::Mixer::MixChunk — literally the SDL bindings for the structure SDL_MixChunk. no cap, that's the whole thing 🫶

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🌸 CATEGORY 🌸

Mixer, Structure. two categories, both iconic, both slaying in their own lane 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the vibe, copy-paste ready:

use SDL;
use SDL::Mixer::MixChunk;

my $mix_chunk = SDL::Mixer::Music::load_WAV('sample.wav');

printf("length of audio data is %d bytes\n", $mix_chunk->alen);
printf("volume is %d\n",                     $mix_chunk->volume);

so you load up a WAV with SDL::Mixer::Music::load_WAV('sample.wav'), and then you can peek at alen and volume like the main character you are. slay. ✨

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so basically this thing stores audio data in memory. that's its whole job and it does it beautifully. 💖

⚠️ note, and this one's important bestie: it's a bad idea to free a chunk that is still being played... like, do NOT do that. it's giving chaos and it will not end well for you 😭💀

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🌈 METHODS 🌈

alen 🎧

length of audio data in bytes. that's it, that's the method — it tells you how thicc your audio data is, in bytes. 📏

volume 🔊

Per-sample volume, 0-128 (normally MIX_MAX_VOLUME after loading). so the range goes from 0 up to 128, and after loading it's normally sitting pretty at MIX_MAX_VOLUME. turn it up, but not past 128, okay? 🔥

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

See "AUTHORS" in SDL. they're the ones who made this happen, go give them their flowers 💐

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and that's the whole page, bestie — you're basically a MixChunk expert now, fr fr. 🧚‍♀️

signing off from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19 — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 💋 🎀🦋💖